Tiger no longer recognizes my firewire audio interface

i tried posting this in the mini forums but got no response
i have an m-audio firewire instrument interface. this interface is also used for all my audio (wired through my stereo system). the other day i woke up to find it no longer recognized by osx. i reinstalled the drivers, tried to upgrade, but got no where. about that same time i found out that the mini was no longer waking up when it went into standby. i posted in the mini forum and got no response so since i was out of options and the mini needed it, i decided to reformat and reinstall tiger. now that ive got things up and running again i installed the m-audio drivers but tiger still isnt recognizing that its plugged in!
the light on it is still lighting up so i know its getting power. is there anything you all could help me with or should i start thinking that something has happened to the interface itself?
any help is greatly greatly appreciated!!!

i reset the pmu and its working like a charm now. thanks so much!
i also thought it was a problem with 10.4.7, but i guess we just had a power hit that i didnt know about that knocked it out of wack.
even though the reformatting was unecessary now, im still glad i did it. a lot more space and much faster.
thanks!!!

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